CHINA - Rev Gu released ahead of Chinese president’s meeting with Obama The Chinese government has released Rev. Gu Yuese from prison ahead of President Xi Jinping's scheduled meeting with President Barack Obama. Rev Gu is the former leader of Hangzhou's Chongyi Church, the the largest government sanctioned church in the [...]
SYRIA - 66 % of Syrian Christians gone, Chaldean Catholic bishop says Antoine Audo, a Chaldean Catholic bishop in Aleppo has warned that two-thirds of all Christians in the war-torn country have left since the conflict began in March 2011, which means close to a million believers have fled the country. [...]
YEMEN Eyewitness account from nun who survived massacre A nun who is the lone survivor of an Islamic State terrorist attack on a church-run retirement home in Yemen earlier this month has provided an eyewitness testimony of the massacre that took the lives of 16 people, including four nuns.In speaking with a [...]
CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - Brave priest works to break cycle of sectarian violence in Bozoum The parish of St Michael in Bozoum is one of the oldest parishes in the country. It was first founded in 1927, the first mission station outside the modern capital of Bangui. It became famous above all [...]
Radical Islamist herdsmen kill 500 Christians in a month - survivors afraid to bury their dead In a series of attacks over the last month, radical Muslims have killed almost 500 predominantly Christian farmers in Benue state in central Nigeria. Muslim Fulani herdsmen launched a heavy attack against the Agatu farmers [...]
Widespread abuse of Christian refugees largely ignored by German authorities Christians refugees have been afraid to seek shelter in official refugee camps in the Middle East because they were attacked and even killed by Muslims while camp authorities did nothing to help them. Now they are also being psychologically abused, physically [...]
IRAQ ACN delegation takes gift from Pope to Christians in Erbil From 1st to 4 April this year a delegation from ACN Italy will visit the city of Erbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan. Pope Francis wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to entrust some sacred vestments, together with a personal [...]
India’s bishops urge government to help find Fr Tom Following the circulation of widespread rumors that Fr. Tom Uzhunnalil was crucified on Good Friday, Indian bishops wrote to India’s Prime Minister and government , “soliciting their urgent intervention to ensure the safety of Fr. Tom” and urging greater effort in locating the priest.In [...]
BANGLADESH - Islamic State kills Christian convert as a 'lesson to others' Hussein Ali , who converted to Christianity from Islam in 1999, was stabbed to death in Bangladesh by suspected Islamic militants. While 68-year-old Hussein was taking his regular morning walk in the town of Kurigram, three attackers approached him on a [...]